Call for Presenters
Cyberlearning Tools for STEM Education (CyTSE) Conference
March 8-9, 2011
The Claremont Hotel Club & Spa
Berkeley, CA
Submissions due October 15, 2010
The call for presenters for the first annual CyTSE Conference is now available!
CyTSE will convene researchers, developers, and educational leaders interested in cyberlearning tools to enhance STEM teaching and learning. There will be hands-on demos, training workshops, interactive breakout sessions, focus groups, and more during the two-day conference. A goal of the conference is to bring together the cyberlearning R&D community
and K-12 educators to learn with and from each other.
We welcome principal investigators, project teams and K-12 educators to attend and present at the conference. The conference will allow you to network with others working in the exciting field of cyberlearning, demo your work, and share best practices. We currently are accepting proposals for breakout sessions, hands-on demos, professional development, focus groups, and more. You are welcome to submit proposals for more than one type of session.
Please visit our website cyberlearningSTEM.org to download the call for presenter form. The deadline for submissions is October 15, 2010. Presentation slots are limited so submit your proposal today!
The conference is scheduled for the two days immediately preceding NSTA in San Francisco to allow participants to easily attend both conferences and save on travel costs. Transportation from CyTSE to NSTA will be provided for participants.
We have lined up a strong and inspiring slate of CyTSE 2011 keynote speakers!
Carl Wieman - Nobel Laureate in Physics and Chairman of the Physics Education
Technology Project
Karen Cator - Director of the Office of Educational Technology, U.S. Department of
Education
Mike Lach - Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary for STEM, U.S. Department of
Education
Roy Pea - Professor of Education and the Learning Sciences and Co-Director: H-STAR
Institute (Human Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research), Stanford University and
member of the NSF Task Force on Cyberlearning
Allan Collins & Richard Halverson - Authors of Rethinking Education in the Age of
Technology
Janet Kolodner- NSF Cyberlearning Programs Officer
Researchers and K-12 educators will benefit from attending the conference by:
· Presenting your work to colleagues, funders, and national thought leaders
· Exploring synergies with other developers
· Networking with leading publishers of digital content looking for new cyberlearning tools
· Conducting professional development workshops and focus groups with teachers and school leaders
· Disseminating your work to a nationwide audience of teachers through WGBH's Teachers' Domain
· Discovering new tools, platforms & evaluation methodologies
· Exploring challenges and solutions for scale up and dissemination of cyberlearning to the K-12 community
This will be a small focused, and highly interactive event specifically tailored for the cyberlearning community and is designed to provide you with valuable insights, ideas, networking contacts, and exposure.
For more information please visit http://cyberlearningSTEM.org or email us at cytse@northwestern.edu
Look for these DR K-12 grantees who are presenting:
- Session Title: Deep Dive Session: Using Google Earth as a Transformative Data Anaysis Tool to Teach Earth Science (03/09/2011)
Presenters: Lisa Blank (project: Cyber-enabled Earth Exploration: Development of Materials for Middle School Earth Science Instruction) - Session Title: OpenSim as an Example of Cyber-enabled Technologies for Facilitating Science as Inquiry (03/09/2011)
Presenters: Todd Campbell (project: Cyber-enabled Learning: Digital Natives in Integrated Scientific Inquiry Classrooms (Collaborative Research: Campbell)), Aaron Duffy, Paul Wolf - Session Title: Geniverse: Learning Modern Genetics in a Game-based Environment (03/08/2011)
Presenters: Daniel Damelin (project: Geniverse: A Student Collaboratory for Biology Cyberlearning) - Session Title: Developing, Researching, and Scaling UP SmartGraphs (03/08/2011)
Presenters: Carolyn Staudt (project: Developing, Researching, and Scaling Up SmartGraphs)